The ‘Forbidden Colors’ Our Eyes Can’t See
Can you imagine a reddish green? Not the muddy brown produced by mixing red and green paint, but a gloriously vivid color that looks a bit like red and a bit like green. How about a color that looks...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like To Have Ultraviolet Vision
Engineer and self described nerd Alek Komarnitsky describes how post cataract surgery, he now sees an expanded color spectrum. What could the lilac glow beyond violet be — auras, pet spirits, Venus...
View ArticleHow Humanity Picked Its Colors
Our long-ago ancestors saw two basic colors: light and dark. Today we see eleven (black, grey, white, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, brown, pink). Tomorrow we will see more. Empirical Zeal...
View ArticleScientists Create Proteins To Enable Human Eyes To See A Wider Color Spectrum
Body modification to expand the realm of the senses, New Scientist reports: Researchers have altered the structure of a protein normally found in the human eye so that it can absorb a type of red light...
View ArticleAn Experiment To Allow Us To See New Colors
Are we missing out on most of reality? Via OMNI Reboot, Rich Lee on transhumanist experimenters hoping to expand the color spectrum (and render all past and current art, fashion, and design obsolete):...
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